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Learning from social movement failure

I think we see four different pathways to failure in the Arab uprisings which are well worth examining… From the Squares and Beyond partnership.

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beyond squares
beyond squares

Rosemary Bechler (RB): Would you tell us a little more about your book on social movement failure?

Thomas Davies (Thomas): My first book was a historical study of transnational activism, and of a fairly clear example of campaign failure in transnational mobilisation. I was looking at the peace movement mobilisation for the objective of disarmament preceding the Second World War.